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WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 1. 1934 THEY SETTLED THE STRIKE A T last there la a settlement of the long Montana copper strike. Some 5.000 men of the mine, mill and smelter workers’ union have ended their 135-day strike and returned to work in the mines of Butte, Anaconda and Oreat Fall* under an agreement that reflects credit not only upon themselves and the mine owners, but upon the government. United States labor department conciliators are largely responsible for the peace. The strikers demanded a six-hour day, the check-off system, abolition of the contract and one-man drill systems, closed shop and 1929 craft wages. They failed to win the sixhour day, the check-off and other demands. But they got union recognition, the closed shop, a forty-hour week, a pay raise of 50 cents a day with promise of a raise of 25 cents a day additional for every 14-cent rise in copper prices above 114 cents a pound. In case of a shutdown the union will protect the mines. Future peace is made easier through the establishment of a bipartisan industrial relations committee to hear complaints and disputes. This dispute and its settlement dramatizes the recent progress certain industries have made. Who does not recall the violence and bloodshed that used to follow labor disputes in the copper mines of the west? In this strike no troops were called, ho one was injured. The mediators of the labor department and labor relations board, not troops, commanded the situation. And, apparently, both capital and labor are satisfied with the justice of the result. THE NAMELESS CITY epHE burning of Nome will be mourned by many a sourdough who owes a fortune, or least rich memories of glamorous life, to the gold rush of thirty-five years ago. And it will quicken the pulse of many a stay-at-home who participated in the adventure only through the press. There was a city for song and poetry! She was the last and most melodramatic of America's frontier towns, peopled then by 20,000 of the earth’s most adventurous, both the good and the greedy. A city of tall tales of riches won overnight, of murders, epidemics, corruption, suffering and heroism. It was a poor miner’s paradise, where a single prospector with a pan, spade and a dog team ( might become a millionaire. Nearly $100,000,000 m gold dust was taken from the sands and creek beds around this town. Nome boasted, like Diamond Lil, that she was “bad but awful good company." Far from “home” and only 150 miles from the Asiatic mainland. Nome never was named formally. According to the National Geographic Society, her name was a mistake. On an early map one cape was left nameless. On it an official wrote the question, “Name?” A copyist transcribed this as Nome, and Nome she’s been ever since. As of old. her people are conditioned to hardship. They will rebuild her on the tundra flats, just as that other gold rush city, San Francisco, rebuilt after 1906 on the hills of the Golden Gate. ILLY WARFARE /""VNE of the ugliest little labor disputes this country has had all year seems to be the one which centers m the onion fields of Hardin county, Ohio. There has been long-con-tinued violence, and much bitterness; and the latest development is the voting of an indictment, which charges pointing firearms and assault with intent to kill, against Okey Odell, leader of the strikers. Previously, a band of thirty or forty “vigilantes” had kidnaped Odell, taken him to an isolated spot, beaten him. and warned him never to come back to the strike scene. Odell armed himself and came back; the indictment is the latest move. All of this is an obvious reflection of a situation m which anger and defiance have gone to undue lengths. Federal conciliators have made unsuccessful attempts to set things straight. It looks as if they ought to make another effort. The "onion war.” though small, is taking an ugly turn. A PRINCELY CHAT IT was just a little story, buried away inside in a newspaper that was heavy with more important news. It bore the headline, "Romanoff has chat with Hohenzollem.” The time was the last part of July, in 1914. The shadow of war was falling long across Europe. Mobilization had been ordered m Germany and Russia. What happened, it seems, was simply that Prir.ee Frederick, grandson of the lormer German kaiser, was guest at a London party given by Prince and Princess Youssoupoff. the latter a niece of the last czar of Russia. And there was no particular reason why anyone should think twice about it—except that the headline itself was a melancholy reminder o 1 the great opportunity which fate once gave to a Hohenzollem and a Romanoff, and which they both muffed. Then, just before the formal declarations of hostilities had been made. Romanoff and Hohenaollem tried to arrange a peaceful settlement. Monarch spoke to monarch—by telegraph. Each one. at the last minute, wanted peace. Now if mortals could nave the gut oi second tight a little oftener. the history of this world would be a good deai different. Those declarations of war were the beginning ot the end for both emperors. The czars roao was to lead to a musty cellar in Ekaterinburg; the kaisers, to igoommous fl.gm o.er

the borders. Had they known, that eleventhhour conversation would have been more fruitfuL But they didn’t know, and they let the generals talk them out of their peace plans. The czar told his general staff to suspend mobilization, while he and Wilhelm talked peace; the kaiser told his staff to mobilize only against France, while the trouble with Russia was settled. And each staff replied that the thing was impossible! The war machines were already in action; they were too cumbersome and uncontrollable to be halted. So this final chat between Hohenzollem and Romanoff went for nothing. They never had a chance to have another. A tragic moment of history, that telegraphed conversation—tragic for its missed opportunity, for its good impulses sacrificed to weak wills. This obscure headline in 1934 is a reminder of' one of the greatest might-have-beens in all human affairs. HOPEFUL FIGURES /"'VNE comforting bit of business news is to be found in the Dun <te Bradstreet tabulation of building permits in 215 leading American cities. This tabulation shows a slight, but definite upward trend in the building industry. A total of $34,000,000 worth of building was initiated in August, for instance. This figure represents a small increase over the figures for July to August of about 9 per cent. Furtherthat very small increase is significant when one recalls that there is usually a decline from July to August of about 9 per cent. Furthermore, the figures for August are 6.3 per cent above the figures for the same month in 1933. One seems justified, then, in concluding that the building industry is beginning to revive. Unfortunately, the revival has a dismayingly long way to go. This figure for August, 1934. is less than a quarter of the figure for August. 1930. Even a small rise is something to be thankful for, but it will have to get a lot higher to do us very much good NEW AIR SERVICE VE7TTHIN the last few days American Air- ~ * lines has extended its fast and efficient air service on the line that operates from Chicago to Dallas, Tex. On this line the air time for the trip has been slashed three hours. Chicago is not the only city which has benefited from the improved equipment and time which the company has put into effect. The trip from Cincinnati to Chicago, via Indianapolis, now can be made in the new Vultee airliners in an hour less than It formerly was. Two weeks ago, officials of the American Airlines extended an invitation to Indianapolis and Cincinnati newspaper men to make the inaugural flight. From the time the blocks were pulled from the wheels of the ship here until the time the blocks were placed under the wheels in Chicago, only sixty-four minutes elapsed. Members ot the flight party were out of the city slightly more than four hours, two hours of which were spent in Chicago. Such service can not be ignored. And Indianapolis, which has one of the outstanding airports in the nation, should be the first to take advantage of the forward steps in aviation. JUDGMENT UNDER PRESSURE 'T'HE more one reads about the tragedy on A the liner Morro Castle, the more one is impressed by the terrible weight of responsibility which can descend, without warning, on the shoulders of the man who holds a command at sea. No other walk of life can bring responsibilities quite like the sea captain’s. In the twinkling of an eye he may be called on to make decisions that will mean life or death to hundreds of people—and he never gets a second guess. His decision, once made, is irrevocable. His slightest error in judgment can be fraught with unspeakable consequences. For this reason it behooves us landlubbers to move slowly in condemning the man who had charge of the Morro Castle during the fire. It uaay be that he made wrong decisions. But we can not judge them fairly unless we realize that the sea captain’s mistakes are made under a pressure that none of us who stay ashore will ever know. MORE CASUALTIES r ’|''HE traffic toll in Marion county has passed the ninety-mark. Careless driving and careless walking are the chief causes of this horrible loss of life. The responsibility rests with each of us. Failure to heed this responsibility is a failure to observe the laws of mankind. FROM ONE SLUM TO ANOTHER O EBUILDING dilapidated dwellings in slum areas is an exceedingly important ipb. But if it is to have the effect it should have, rents in the new dwellings must be within the reach of the people who formerly occupied the slums. A case in point is coming to light in a midwestern industrial city, where the government is about to spend millions putting up new homes in one of its worst slum areas. Approximately four hundred families are being moved out of the buildings that are being tom down—and now it develops that most of them will continue to live in that neighborhood in other dilapidated buildings, or will move out ot the neighborhood altogether. The new buildings will be too costly for them. Spending millions on slum clearance will do little good, if new slums are going to replace the old ones. At last the perfect movie divorce has been found. Neither the husband nor the wife made the statement after the decree that they’d still be friends. An economist says the depression has sharpened the nation's intellect. We’ll never believe it as long as there still are people who slap you on the back and keep repeating. “You nasty man. never do that.” It’s hard to see how Upton Sinclair can carrv California His platform says nothing about the climate. While the government is planning to improve the grocery code, can’t something be done about the clerk who claims to be able to t o, l h*'hr a cantaloupe is ripe by shaking it near toe ear?

•Liberal Viewpoint ! BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES THE recent ovations to Hitler in Nuremburg In Germany makes all the more timely well informed surveys of Germany under the rule of the Nazi. Mr. Shuster's book is certainly one of the very' best which has yet been published. (“Strong Man Rules.” By George N. Shuster. Appleton-Century. $2.) Indeed, it is so far the best one I have read and I have missed few, if any. of them. Hitler accurately is presented as the inevitable outgrowth of the lolly of the Allies in the Treaty of Versailles and of the decline of the capitalistic system. He is represented as neither the savior of mankind nor the devil of the modern age. There is no apology for the savagery of the Nazi, but the facts are presented with surprising fairness. Even Mr. Shusters Catholic sympathies do not distort his interpretation to any notable degree. One will agree particularly with his sensible appraisal of both Italian and German Fascism as “the feeble liquidation of an era"—the age of anarchistic capitalism. He concludes with a reasonable observation that the age of laissez faire liberalism must be supplanted by comprehensive social planning or else we will end In chaos and the ruin of civilization. Most surveys of the rise of the policies of Hitler have been lessened in value because they have concentrated on someone particular phase of Nazi policy—anti-Semitism, revisionism, militarism, and the like. a an Mr. Henri’s volume is particularly valuable in that it tries to analyze all the factors lying be_ hind Hitler and|his party, as well as presenting the character and ambitions of the major personalities of Nazi Germany. ("Hitler Over Europe," by Ernest Henri. Simon & Schuster, $1.90). Perhaps the most novel feature is the emphasis laid upon the part played by Herr Thyson and the great Ruhr industrialists in backing up Hitler as a buffer against German radicalism. In a preface written since the Nazi massacres at the beginning of July, he charges that Hitler killed Roehm and purged the Storm Troops a! the command of Thysen, who feared that Roehm might lead a revolt of the German underdogs against the vested interests of German industrialism. Next to this the most interesting section of the volume deals with the Nazi war plans and their prospects of success. The anti-Jewish crusade and their dramatic episodes since the coming of Hitler to power have obscured the permanently important issue of the relation between Germany and Poland, ncluding the Corridor question. u a MOST of the literature written on the Ger-man-Polish question has been marred by a strong overtone of propaganda. Dr. Brachmann has edited a volume by specialists treating all aspects of the situation, including an ample account of the historical background. (“Germany and Poland in Their Historical Relations." Edited by Albert Brackmann. R. Oldenbourg. Six marks.) It is probably the best book on the subject in the English language and as fairminded as any work by German scholars could possibly be. The persecution of the Jews by Hitler has had the inevitable result of stirring the Jews to a more enthusiastic study of their past cultural heritage. One of the products has been the “Jewish Library.” The present volume, the third in the series, surveys at length the role of the woman in Judaism from bibical times to the present day. (“The Jewish Library. Third Series." Edited by Rabbi Leo Jung. The Jewish Library Publishing Cos.; $2.50). It is not only a valuable contribution to the history of Jewish civilization, but also to the literature of the woman problem. Professor Goldschmidt’s little booklet on the Jewish problem throughout history runs to only some forty-four pages, but it contains more relevant common sense and cogent information than many a long volume on the subject. (“Whither Israel?” By Alfons Goldschmidt. 25 cents.) It will be hard to find a better work on this theme written from the Jewish point of view.

Capital Capers

BY GEORGE ABELL

SELDOM has anything that occurs ill the United States senate caused such a terrific hullabaloo in diplomatic and official circles as the senate munitions committee revelations. Each day the envoys of foreign governments here have kept the cables busy with private reports to their governments and have been iecfiving cabled orders in reply. Each day diplomats have protested with regularity to the state department about the public mention of high officials in governments throughout the world. First, the name of King Geoige V of England was mentioned. That brought about a near panic at the British embassy, where his majesty's name is never mentioned except reverently over the proverbial toast in port wine. London was indignant. Sir Ronald Lindsay made what were termed “mild representations” to Secretary Hull. Then the president of Mexico’s name was bruited about the committee hearings. It was learned that the Mexican ambassador, Dr. Roa, was forwarding a formal protest. a a a ENERGETIC Felipe Espil, ambassador of Argentina, has appeared on the scene and in his suave manner casually hinted that inclusion of his country’s notable personalities in the inquiry might possibly result in strained trade relations between the United States and Argentina. Someone on ihe hill then inserted something into the record to the effect that the “only honest man in Bolivia was the controller-gen-eral.” One may readily imagine the stir and indignation at the Bolivian legation. Poland. Peru. Colombia, China and Turkey were mentioned in the committee hearings. Immense sensations at the foreign missions of all those nations. “Who will be next?” was the general query heard on all sides, wherever diplomats gathered. a a a SPECIAL emissaries who have come from different parts of the world to Washington to promote foreign trade made a tremendous clamor. The antechambers of embassies and legations became crowded with protesting visitors, the desks of envoys littered with letters and cablegrams. It was claimed that the revelations of the senate committee tended to instill fear among foreign firms, thus preventing them from consummating business deals with American concerns. “They are afraid,” said one ambassador, who declined to be quoted directly, “that their names may be paraded before the world whenever it may please a committee of some sort to investigate some other phase of industry.” An instance of this fear was reported by diplomats to be the action of Senor Emilio Bello, Chilean defense minister (and widely known in Washington), who served notice yesterday that bids of Amercian aviation firms seeking to sell materials to the government will not be considered. "There you are," smiled diplomats—rightly or wrongly. a a a SECRETARY HULL—whose life during recent recent weeks has been a series of protests and angry rumbles from indignant governments —conferred with the senate committee. So, too. did Commerce Secretary Roper. Almost immediately it was noised about that r rom certain correspondence which went into the the names of foreigners were being eliminated record It generally is believed that the inquiry has been curtailed. The diplomatic corps and some muchpestered officials are breathing easier. Faint heart never won fair lady because nothing but a checkbook ever convinces a blond.

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The Message Center

(Timet readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 150 words or less.) APPLAUDS VIEWS OF MINTON By W. E. Lemon. At the Democratic opening Friday night, Sherman Minton, candidate for senator, stressed the fact that the people can not subsist upon the Constitution, as it is indigestible, although Li'l Arthur has recommended aforesaid menu for the health of the average American citizen. Judge John W. Kern, in his honest and conscientious way, told his audience the absolute truth in regard to his opponent, who, as he said, is Coffin controlled and which I know is an absolute truth, having served on one of the local election boards. Should we go back to the old Jackson and Duvall days and let these parasites suck life blood that has been preserved by our previous Democratic administrations, or should we, regardless of politics, vote to uphold our fundamental rights as American citizens, and help keep the county and city out of debt, our homes free and uphold our President who is for all the people and not a select few. Last, but not least, let us not forget Otto Ray, who looks out for the poor, the down and out and unfortunate, and also is a battler, and his honest and conscientious way will make him a real sheriff, for, like Jefferson, justice for one and all, regardless of creed, color or nationality always has been his fundamental principle. By putting all the "isms” in the discard, namely Coffinism, Robinsonism, Kluxerism, and Hooverism. and all following in the footsteps of the President, we will in time reach prosperity and catch it on the corner. 0 0 0 SKILLED WORKMEN ON RELIEF JOBS By Sherman Lon;. In view of the fact that the squawkers have not as yet attempted to inculpate my previous incontrovertible assertions relative to the burden that they believed to be forced upon them by the present sj'stem of unemployment relief, I should be grateful for space in The Message Center sufficient for conclusion of the controversy. Useless to say that I repent with bitter tears since being informed that I have attempted to bite the hand that feeds me. I just have discovered that the self-pitied taxpayer that I referred to had been the proud and prosperous proprietor of one of the many park bench hotels and garbage can boarding houses, back in the good old days when there was a chicken In every pot, when prosperity was just around the corner, and the starving unemployed kept up the spirit of the men of Valley Forge. Or perhaps he was production manager for one of those push carts that go down the alley in search of i paper and rags, then being compelled to give up his customers and at the same time give all the money that he had realized out of their patronage to be used for the purpose of patronizing his competitor, he could hardly be expected to retain his integrity. Those who doubt that there are, within the ranks of the relief workers, such craftsmen aa carpenters

“MY BOYS”

Democratic Fate and NRA Linked

By Georee W. Curtis. The state of Indiana will not go Democratic this fall unless the President acts in a manner that will give the NRA force and effect during this tacit revolution. The National Association of Manufacturers has advised the nation’s employers to ignore the majority rule decision of the national labor relations board. By the time judicial authority has passed upon the ruling, there will be no need for the NRA. The maintenance of unemployed millions is the most important task this government ever has known. The NRA is the most important extra-constitutional legislation since the legal tender act. The capitalist coteries form a menace to the union no less than did the confederacy. The common sense of the people was no more clear then than now. The same issue is to be decided, “Whether the union has a right to defend itself against enemies combined to despoil and destroy it. The plight of the unemployed and their families today is a sin against God and a crime against men the some as was the confederacy. Andrew Jackson in pointing out his duty to the state of South Carolina when it declared null and

and designers, painters and skilled construction workers, would do well to spend a little carfare and investigate some of the relief projects, especially the new school on Traub avenue, which has been designed and is being constructed by relief workers from second-hand material, but I suppose they have been overtaxed to such an extent that they could not stand to pay the carfare. 000 SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND NEEDY FAMILIES By Orle J. Simmons. It makes not one jot of difference whether textbooks are given indigents free by the school board, or not, for experience has shown that private agencies of relief expand or fold up directly as public aid is available or not. But when books and supplies are provided in a given case, it is a case of intellectual dishonesty, even though not so intended, not to vide all things needed. Why rate a given family as meriting free books, then expect that family to be forever buying their children paints, pencils, special drill paper, special arithmetic paper, and the like? In high school this criticism can not be made, but in the lower grades there is a continual demand for small but difficult expenditures. The annoyance to indigent parents of thinking that their meager income of a few cents a day can be applied all to absolute necessities only to find *that there are school purchases to make, is out of all proportion to the amounts involved. The school board should in a given ~as provide all supplies or none. 000 INALIENABLE RIGHTS AND PROFIT SYSTEM Br Mr*. W. William*. More than 150 year ago our forefathers proclaimed In the Declaration of Independence that the supreme function of government Is to make secure for men their inalienable rights to life, liberty and the

[I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

void the United States tariff act, said: “The dictates of a high duty oblige me solemnly to announce that you can not succeed. The laws of the Unit 'd States must be executed. Those who told you that you sought peaceably to prevent their execution deceived you. Forcible opposition alone can prevent the execution of the laws, and such opposition must be repelled. The object aimed at is disunion and disunion by armed force is treason. Are you ready to incur its guilt? If you are, on the heads of the instigators of the act be the dreadful consequences, but on you may fall the punishment.” The President, being command-er-in-chief of the army, should disregard the Governor of Rhode Island in his President Buchanan type of statesmanship and declare martial law in that district, closing everything; corral all employers, employes, pickets and strike breakers and have them enjoy the hospitality of an army diet until sanity has been restored. We have landed blue jackets and soldiers in many foreign countries for the purpose of protecting personal and property rights.

pursuit of happiness. Mon over, the fathers declared that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute anew government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Such are the two basic principles of human liberty and genuine Americanism laid down by the founders of this republic. Under the present system of production for private profit the rulers have created conditions that are intolerable. They have drawn billions in profit, rent, and interest and they have slashed wages and the prices of farm products. They have taken the products of our labor and not paid us enough to buy back the goods we have produced. They have lived :n mansions and evicted us from our homes. They have led us to trust in their banks and then have stolen our savings. They have invaded cur civil liberties and thrown our leaders into jail. They have intrenched themselves In power by controlling the schools, the press, the radio and the government. They have spent billions on bombs and battleships while we have gone cold and hungry. They have forced us to bleed and die in defense of their loans and markets abroad and to kill our fellow-work-ers in other countries. They have done these things as part and parcel of a profit system which places the few in control of

Daily Thought

But if the wicked turn from his wickedness and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.—Ezekiel, 33;19. SLIGHT sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same Urn* produce* amendment.—Colton.

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gigantic monopolies and puts profit above human life. Today the nation starves in the midst of plenty. The gigantic machines stand idle. The crops lie in warehouses or rot in the fields. Oh, boy, what a system! 0 0S TEXTILE STRIKER RECEIVES REPLY By a Citizen. I am a constant reader of The Times and enjoy reading The Message Center. I read what one of the strikers of the Indianapolis Bleaching Company wrote in regard to the religion some of the employes professed who still are working. Now, in answer, I would also like to know what religion those profess who are on strike, as I never heard of a religion that teaches you to throw rocks and bricks, and blasphem your fellow workers. If there is such religion. thank goodness it is not very popular. Organized labor is all right, providing you can acquire it without bloodshed, ill feelings and hardship. Why lose true friends for something you can not attain? The strikers have my sympathy inasmuch as they are weak-minded enough to let someone lead them on who is drawing a high salary and not suffering as they are and who will not give them work after they have lost their jobs. As times are today with so many persons out of work and so many on charity, I would consider myself lucky to have a job and consider my employer my best friend.

Sc They Say

There is no Communism in Russia. It is a Socialistic experiment and they are yielding more and more to our form of government. —Professor A. J. Pearson, liberal arts dean, Drake university. Asa conservative, I’m in favor of people paying their debts. And as a conservative, I'm also in favor of the government making it possible for the people to pay their debts. —Senator Elmer Thomas (Dem., Oklaj. The medical profession mast concern itself with passage of basic scientific laws to regulate the tremendous growth in America of cultists.—Dr. J L. Pomeroy. Los Angeles county health officer. A bellhop in this country lives better than most noblemen abroad. —Ray D. Cremona. Hollywood bellhop who inherited European hotels.

ADVICE

BY EUGENIE RICIIART There is another girl you know. Whose voice is music, whose lip* are fire. And she is the essence of desire— Yet she is snow. She is all depths, all subtleties, And all things glorious and strange, A singular blossom time can not change— She Is all these. She is a white dream in the head, A long red kiss in the heart, you think. And she will give you wine to drink . . . But 1 have bread.